"Helden des 20. Jahrhunderts - Ein Hysterienspiel mit Puppen" is a central project in Suse Wächter's oeuvre - an ancestral gallery of more than 70 miniature portraits of famous personalities, a kind of "ensemble of the undead". Premiered as a play in 2003, "HEROES OF THE 20th CENTURY HUNDRED" has been performed at the Volksbühne Berlin, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, in Poland and Switzerland. Many of the characters also continue their ghostly lives in other productions and art projects.
For the Brecht Festival, Suse Wächter sets her characters in relation to Brecht songs. The result is 12 music clips that rediscover Brecht in an unusually playful, anarchic and touching way.
For the Brecht Festival, Suse Wächter sets her characters in relation to Brecht songs. The result is 12 music clips that rediscover Brecht in an unusually playful, anarchic and touching way.
With: Suse Wächter, Matthias Trippner.
Video: Ulrike Gutbrod, Datenstrudel, Stephanie Kloss and Jo Schramm
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Bertolt Brecht heirs
A production of the Brechtfestival Augsburg 2021
Streaming as part of BRECHT DIGITAL. Funded as part of the "dive in. Program for Digital Interactions" of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in the NEUSTART KULTUR." program;
Press reviews:
"Suse Wächter appears again and again with one of her puppets - "Heroes of the 20th century sing Brecht". One hero is Luciano Pavarotti, who sings the children's anthem in an empty stadium and says afterwards, "it's quite a lot of pomp". Stunningly touching: Rosa Luxemburg as a small, delicate doll, with a guard at the Landwehr Canal, the place of her death. She sings the "Ballad of the Drowned Girl" like a pensive moth.
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2021
"Suse Wächter appears again and again with one of her puppets - "Heroes of the 20th century sing Brecht". One hero is Luciano Pavarotti, who sings the children's anthem in an empty stadium and says afterwards, "it's quite a lot of pomp". Stunningly touching: Rosa Luxemburg as a small, delicate doll, with a guard at the Landwehr Canal, the place of her death. She sings the "Ballad of the Drowned Girl" like a pensive moth.
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2021
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